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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $16.56
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Arturo Escobar
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.9
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Publication Date: 1994-11-14
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became mechanisms of control that were just as pervasive and effective as their colonial counterparts. The development apparatus generated categories powerful enough to shape the thinking even of its occasional critics while poverty and hunger became widespread. "Development" was not even partially "deconstructed" until the 1980s, when new tools for analyzing the representation of social reality were applied to specific "Third World" cases. Here Escobar deploys these new techniques in a provocative analysis of development discourse and practice in general, concluding with a discussion of alternative visions for a postdevelopment era. Escobar emphasizes the role of economists in development discourse--his case study of Colombia demonstrates that the economization of food resulted in ambitious plans, and more hunger. To depict the production of knowledge and power in other development fields, the author shows how peasants, women, and nature became objects of knowledge and targets of power under the "gaze of experts."
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Price: $20.95
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Sale: $8.79
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Manufacturer: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 337
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Publication Date: 2004-10-10
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Reading Level: 408
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Description: The culmination of a five-year project by the International Forum on Globalization (IFG), this book presents an inspiring plan for moving toward more sustainable, humanistic models of economic prosperity with an emphasis on citizen democracies, local self-sufficiency, and ecological health. Areas of discussion include the ten core requirements for democratic societies as well as alternative systems of energy, agriculture, and manufacturing. Written by a premier group of 18 thinkers from around the world and edited by best-selling authors John Cavanagh and Jerry Mander, this revised and expanded edition represents the official consensus of the living democracy movement. Delving into the most compelling alternatives to globalization thus far, it features a chart on the effects of globalization and three entirely new chapters on the global balance of power, the media, and what ordinary people can do about globalization.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $23.03
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tom Inglis
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304
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Publication Date: 2007-10-11
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: Ireland offers a concise synthesis of globalization's dramatic impact on Ireland. In the past fifteen years, Ireland has transformed from a sleepy and depressed European backwater to the 'emerald tiger', a country with a booming economy based on knowledge and high-tech industries. Not long ago it was one of the poorest and most traditional countries in Europe, yet now it is one of the wealthiest and most cosmopolitan. Using a number of case studies of Ireland's transition, Tom Inglis explains what this means for traditional Irish culture and society and offers an incisive social portrait of globalizing Ireland.
Books in Globalzing Regions series look at how nations and regions across the world are navigating the tumultuous currents of globalization. Concise, descriptive, interdisciplinary, and theoretically informed, they serve as ideal introductions to the peoples and places of our increasingly globalized world.
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $17.48
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Manufacturer: Anthem Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ha-Joon Chang
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Publisher: Anthem Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.90091724
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Publication Date: 2002-09-01
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Reading Level: 187
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Description: How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative new study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain "good policies" and "good institutions", seen today as necessary for economic development. Adopting an historical approach, Chang finds that the economic evolution of now-developed countries differed dramatically from the procedures that they now recommend to poorer nations. His conclusions are compelling and disturbing: that developed countries are attempting to "kick away the ladder" by which they have climbed to the top, thereby preventing developing counties from adopting policies and institutions that they themselves used.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $7.98
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Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Graham Hancock
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Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.91091724
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Publication Date: 1994-01-10
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: A comprehensive and controversial study of the 60-billion-dollar-a-year world foreign-aid business, Lords of Poverty was a bestseller in hardcover and earned the 1990 H.L. Mencken Award honorable mention for an outstanding book of journalism. Hancock investigates why huge aid projects often fail and demands a response from those in the industry.
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $15.96
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Timothy Mitchell
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.962
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Publication Date: 2002-11
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Reading Level: 423
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Description: Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world?
Rule of Experts examines these questions through a series of interrelated essays focused on Egypt in the twentieth century. These explore the way malaria, sugar cane, war, and nationalism interacted to produce the techno-politics of the modern Egyptian state; the forms of debt, discipline, and violence that founded the institution of private property; the methods of measurement, circulation, and exchange that produced the novel idea of a national "economy," yet made its accurate representation impossible; the stereotypes and plagiarisms that created the scholarly image of the Egyptian peasant; and the interaction of social logics, horticultural imperatives, powers of desire, and political forces that turned programs of economic reform in unanticipated directions.
Mitchell is a widely known political theorist and one of the most innovative writers on the Middle East. He provides a rich examination of the forms of reason, power, and expertise that characterize contemporary politics. Together, these intellectually provocative essays will challenge a broad spectrum of readers to think harder, more critically, and more politically about history, power, and theory.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $18.95
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Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Elizabeth C. Dunn
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.943805
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Publication Date: 2004-06
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Reading Level: 204
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Description: The transition from socialism in Eastern Europe is not an isolated event, but part of a larger shift in world capitalism: the transition from Fordism to flexible (or neoliberal) capitalism. Using a blend of ethnography and economic geography, Elizabeth C. Dunn shows how management technologies like niche marketing, accounting, audit, and standardization make up flexible capitalism’s unique form of labor discipline. This new form of management constitutes some workers as self-auditing, self-regulating actors who are disembedded from a social context while defining others as too entwined in social relations and unable to self-manage. Privatizing Poland examines the effects privatization has on workers’ self-concepts; how changes in "personhood" relate to economic and political transitions; and how globalization and foreign capital investment affect Eastern Europe’s integration into the world economy. Dunn investigates these topics through a study of workers and changing management techniques at the Alima-Gerber factory in Rzeszow, Poland, formerly a state-owned enterprise, which was privatized by the Gerber Products Company of Fremont, Michigan. Alima-Gerber instituted rigid quality control, job evaluation, and training methods, and developed sophisticated distribution techniques. The core principle underlying these goals and strategies, the author finds, is the belief that in order to produce goods for a capitalist market, workers for a capitalist enterprise must also be produced. Working side-by-side with Alima-Gerber employees, Dunn saw firsthand how the new techniques attempted to change not only the organization of production, but also the workers’ identities. Her seamless, engaging narrative shows how the employees resisted, redefined, and negotiated work processes for themselves.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $17.94
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Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Elliott D. Sclar
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338
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Publication Date: 2001-12
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: Today, nearly all public services--from schools and hospitals to prisons, fire departments, and sanitation--are considered fair game for privatization. Proponents argue that private firms responding to competitive market pressures will provide better service at lower cost. While this assertion has caused much controversy, the debate has consisted mainly of impassioned defenses of entrenched positions on all sides. You Don't Always Get What You Pay For changes the contours of this debate. Elliott D. Sclar offers a balanced look at the pitfalls and promises of public sector privatization in the United States. Describing the underlying economic dynamics of how public agencies and private organizations actually work together, he provides a rigorous analysis of the assumptions behind the case for privatization. The competitive-market model may seem appealing, but Sclar warns that it does not address the complex reality of contracting for government services. Using specific examples such as mail service and urban transportation, he shows that, in an ironic twist, privatization does not shrink government--the broader goal of many of its own champions. He also demonstrates that there is more to consider in providing these services than trying to achieve efficiency; there are issues such as equity and access that cannot be ignored. Sclar believes that public officials and voters will soon realize the limitations of "contracting out" just as private corporations have come to understand the drawbacks of outsourcing. After examining the effectiveness of alternatives to privatization, he offers suggestions for improving public sector performance--advice he hopes will be heeded before it is too late. A Century Foundation Book
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Price: $154.40
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Sale: $64.90
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Manufacturer: Addison Wesley
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Don E. Waldman::Elizabeth J. Jensen
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Publisher: Addison Wesley
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Edition: 3
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.9
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Publication Date: 2006-08-04
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Reading Level: 736
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Description: Written solely for the undergraduate audience, this streamlined Third Edition of Industrial Organization: Theory and Practice——which features early coverage of Antitrust——punctuates its modern introduction to industrial organization with relevant empirical data and case studies to show students how to apply theoretical tools.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $17.50
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Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: George B.N. Ayittey
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.96
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Publication Date: 2006-09-01
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Reading Level: 512
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Description: Why haven't the poorest Africans been able to prosper in the twenty-first century? Celebrated economist George Ayittey thinks the answer is obvious: economic freedom was denied to them, first by foreign colonial powers and now by indigenous leaders with similarly oppressive practices. As war and conflict replaced peace, Africa's infrastructure crumbled. Instead of bemoaning the myriad difficulties facing the continent today, Ayittey boldly proposes a program of development--a way forward--for Africa. Africa Unchained investigates how Africa can modernize, build, and improve its indigenous institutions, and argues forcefully that Africa should build and expand upon traditions of free markets and free trade rather than continuing to use exploitative economic structures. The economic model here is uniquely African and takes little heed from the developed world; this is sure to be a highly controversial plan for moving Africa forward.
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